After the summer warmth of global celebrity comes the savage winter of the
Russian gulag for the punk rock protesters of Pussy Riot.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova will mark the new year in a prison camp in Mordovia,
360 miles southeast of Moscow, where the temperature is expected to sink to
minus 27C next week.

Maria Alyokhina endures similar hardship near Perm, 750 miles further east,
where guards have just punished her for oversleeping past 6am and she is in
solitary confinement. Neither woman can expect a break from the routine of
sewing police uniforms for 12 hours a day at their